Undergraduate
Architecture Faculty
Architecture (English)
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PSYCHOLOGY IN ARCHITECTURE

Course CodeSemester Course Name LE/RC/LA Course Type Language of Instruction ECTS
ARC0102 PSYCHOLOGY IN ARCHITECTURE 3/0/0 DE English 4
Course Goals
The aim of this course is to give the student to look their own cognitive process and to realize the effects of space on human. 
Prerequisite(s) None
Corequisite(s) None
Special Requisite(s) None
Instructor(s) Professor Emel BİRER
Course Assistant(s) -
Schedule The course is not offered this semester.
Office Hour(s) Instructor name, day, hours, XXX Campus, office number.
Teaching Methods and Techniques Lecture and Discussion
Principle Sources Açıkgöz, K.Ü.(2003), Etkili Öğrenme ve Öğretme, Eğitim Dünyası Yayınları, 4.Basım, İzmir.   Arık, A. (1995), Öğrenme Psikolojisine Giriş, Der Yayınları, İstanbul.   Baron, J. (1994), Thinking and Deciding, Cambridge Univ.Press, Second Press, Cambridge.   Batırbaygil, H. (1996), Yaratıcılık ve Mimar, Beta Basım Yayım Dağıtım A.Ş, İstanbul, s.74.   Erden, M., Akman, Y. (2001), Gelişim ve Öğrenme, Arkadaş Yayınevi, 9.Baskı, Ankara.   Kahvecioğlu, N.P. (2001), Mimari Tasarım Eğitiminde Bilgi ve Yaratıcılık, Doktora Tezi, İ.T.Ü. Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, İstanbul.   Lawson, Bryan, "Design in Mind", Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd 1994.
Lawson, B., "How Designers Think", London the Architectural Press Ltd. 1980
Other Sources -
Course Schedules
Week Contents Learning Methods
1. Week Introduction of the programme Lecture
2. Week Environmental psychology, Human-Environmental relationship Lecture
3. Week Cognitive processes in design, Gestalt approach, Behaviourist approach and the other theoretical approaches. Lecture
4. Week Meanning of space Lecture
5. Week The effects of architectural styles Lecture
6. Week The architectural design education and the learning theories. Lecture
7. Week Perception, cognition and patterns of spatial behaviour. Lecture
8. Week Case Study Lecture
9. Week Crowd and privacy, Personal space. Lecture
10. Week Creating and experiencing space. Lecture
11. Week Space and materials. Lecture
12. Week Space and colours. Lecture
13. Week Case Study Lecture
14. Week Case Study Lecture
15. Week Final Exam Examination
16. Week
17. Week
Assessments
Evaluation tools Quantity Weight(%)
Attendance 1 10
Final Exam 1 90


Program Outcomes
PO-1Critical Thinking: Ability to inquire, use abstract ideas to interpret information, consider diverse points of view, reach well-reasoned conclusions.
PO-2Communication: Ability to use appropriate representational media to transmit essential formal elements at design process.
PO-3Investigation: Ability to gather, record, apply, and comparatively evaluate relevant information within design processes.
PO-4Design: Ability to reproduce the design information in the creative thinking process, to reach new and original results through universal design principles such as sustainability and accessibility.
PO-5World Architecture: Understanding world architecture in terms of their historical, geographical and global factors.
PO-6Local Architecture / Cultural Diversity: Understanding the architectural formations and samples of a geography through its historical and cultural context. Understanding the divergent canons of cultural values, behavioral, social and spatial patterns.
PO-7Cultural Heritage and Conservation: Understanding of conservation discourses and methods, and the subjects of cultural heritage, conservation awareness, environmental concerns and ethical responsibility.
PO-8Sustainability: Ability to design projects by using the information regarding the natural and built environment to reduce the undesirable environmental impacts on future generations through means.
PO-9Social Responsibility: Understanding of the architect’s responsibility about protecting the commonweal, having respect for historical/cultural and natural resources and improving the life quality.
PO-10Nature and Human: Understanding of the relationship between human, the natural environment and the design of the built environment.
PO-11Geographical Conditions: Understanding the relationships of site selection, settlement and building design by considering the cultural, economical and social properties as well as the natural characteristics such as soil, topography, vegetation and watershed.
PO-12Life Safety: Understanding the basic principles of security and life-safety systems in the conditions of natural disasters, fire, etc. through building and environment scales.
PO-13Structural Systems: Understanding of the basic principles of structural behavior in withstanding gravity and lateral forces and the evolution, range, and appropriate application of contemporary structural systems.
PO-14Environmental Systems: Understanding the principles of physical environmental systems’ design such as lighting, acoustics, climatization and the use of appropriate performance assessment tools.
PO-15Building Envelope Systems: Understanding of the basic principles involved in the appropriate application of building envelope systems and associated assemblies.
PO-16Building Service Systems: Understanding of the basic design principles of building service systems such as plumbing, electrical, vertical transportation, security, and fire protection systems.
PO-17Building Materials and Assemblies: Understanding of the basic principles utilized in the appropriate selection of construction materials, products, components and assemblies, based on their inherent characteristics and performance, including their environmental impact and reuse.
PO-18Integration of Building Service Systems: The ability of assessing, selecting and integrating the structural, environmental, security, envelope and service systems of the buildings for building design.
PO-19Programming and Evaluation: Ability to prepare and evaluate an architectural project program by considering the public benefits in regards of client and user needs, appropriate examplers, space and equipment requirements, financial limitations, site conditions, relevant codes, laws and design principles.
PO-20Comprehensive Project Development: Ability to produce a comprehensive architectural project that demonstrates to make design decisions across various scales.
PO-21Considering Building Costs: Understanding the fundamentals of building construction and use costs.
PO-22Architect-Client Relationship: Understanding of the responsibility of the architect to elicit, understand, and reconcile the needs of the client, owner, user groups, and the public and community domains.
PO-23Collaboration: Ability to work in collaboration with others and in multidisciplinary teams to successfully complete design projects.
PO-24Project Management: Understanding of the methods for competing for commissions, selecting consultants and assembling teams, and recommending project delivery methods.
PO-25Practice Management: Understanding the basic principles in the architectural practice processes like financial management, business planning, quality management, risk management, discussion and reconciliation.
PO-26Leadership: Understanding of the techniques and skills architects use to work collaboratively in the building design and construction process and on environmental, social, and aesthetic issues in their communities.
PO-27Legal Rights and Responsibilities: Understanding of the architect’s responsibility to the public and the client as determined by regulations and legal considerations involving the practice of architecture.
PO-28Professional Practice: Understanding and fulfillment of employer and intern rights and responsibilities for development of profession.
PO-29Ethics of Profession: Understanding of the ethical issues involved in profession regarding social, political and cultural issues in architectural design and practice.
Learning Outcomes
LO-11. To aim to gain knowledge about perception, conceptual and spatial behaviour styles of human (KNOWLEDGE).
LO-22. Ability to understand and use the interaction between physical environment and human (SKILLS).
LO-33. Ability to design problem solutions about the effects of space on human pshchology (COMPETENCY).
LO-4 4. Aim to understand and gain knowledge of needs / behavior patterns on different social patterns (KNOWLEDGE).
LO-55. Ability to use the diversities of different spatial patterns on different social patterns (SKILLS).
Course Assessment Matrix:
Program Outcomes - Learning Outcomes Matrix
 PO 1PO 2PO 3PO 4PO 5PO 6PO 7PO 8PO 9PO 10PO 11PO 12PO 13PO 14PO 15PO 16PO 17PO 18PO 19PO 20PO 21PO 22PO 23PO 24PO 25PO 26PO 27PO 28PO 29